Greek and Roman animal sacrifice ancient victims, modern observers / [electronic resource] :
edited by Christopher A. Faraone and F.S. Naiden.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge UP, 2012.
- 1 online resource : ill.
Proceedings of a conference held Apr. 2008 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From Bergaigne to Meuli: how animal sacrifice became a hot topic / Bruce Lincoln -- One generation after Burkert and Girard: where are the great theories? / Fritz Graf -- Blessed are the parasites / F.S. Naiden -- Roman animal sacrifice and the system of being / John Scheid -- Sacrificing stones: on some sculpture, mostly Athenian / Richard Neer -- Sacrifice in Roman art / Jaś Elsner -- Animal sacrifice in comedy: an alternative point of view / James Redfield -- Animal sacrifice in Greek tragedy: ritual, metaphor, problematizations / Albert Henrichs.